Get Crafty: DIY Krusty Krab Hats

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Halloween! And this year, we’re taking a trip all the way down to Bikini Bottom.

The gang’s all here!

I had an eye-opening realization during my search for the perfect Squidward costume. The truth is, there’s just not nearly enough tutorials on how to make a Krusty Krab hat. So,  here’s one to add to the vast web!

Materials:

• Recycled Cardboard
• Felt
• Black (glitter) Cardstock
• Pipe Cleaners (blue and black)
• Red Puffy Paint
• Hot Glue Gun
• Newspaper

Directions:

1. Cut cardboard to size of hat, roughly 4″x5″, but cut to the height you prefer.
2. Repeatedly fold cardboard into a cylinder to work out any existing folds.
3. Hot glue cardboard into a ~2″ round cylinder. Paint the cardboard white to limit color showing through the felt covering.
4. Cut felt to equal size and carefully place hot glue along the edges to cover up the cardboard completely.
5. Cut a piece of the black cardstock to glue as the hat rim. The measurement I used is about 3/4″x5″. The cardstock I used also had a nice glitter undertone, but that obviously isn’t necessarily. OR, just use black paint, as always, this is your world and your hat, use you discretion.
6. Next up is the hat brim. Cut a piece of card board in a, uhh, rounded square shape. The width should equal the diameter of your hat, and length should add 2-3″. Curve the rounded edge to stand up.
7. Cut a piece of blue felt and black cardstock to the same size as the brim and glue onto your brim. The blue will be the bottom and the black on top.
8. Hot glue the brim onto the bottom of the hat.
9. Fill the hat with crumpled newspaper, you know, for added stability.
10. Cut a circle of carboard the same size as the top of the hat. Crumple half a piece of newspaper and glue to the cardboard circle. Cover with a piece of white felt. This will be the hat’s poof!
11. Glue your poof on top of the hat’s base.
12. Make the shape of an anchor using a blue pipe cleaner and glue to the front of the hat.
13. Make the shape of a spiral with a black pipe cleaner and glue to the top of the hat as the button.
14. Using red puffy paint. Draw the seams from the hat brim to the button and back down on either side.
15. Once dry, use hot glue to attach your hat to the headband of your choice.
16. Let the Halloween party commence!

This reminds me of a project we did freshman year of high school where we had to write down the instructions to how to make a PB&J. The lesson was that if you left out even one small step, the user could make an avoidable error. Basically, what I’m saying is, “Good Luck!”

What has been your greatest Halloween DIY costume success? Share in the comments!